Who's that knocking? Michael Bay? Don't you already have your own robot film, Michael? Get outta here! McG? No, he screwed up his robot war movie. Thanks, we'll pass. The deal was sealed during Comic-Con last week. That place is becoming like the Cannes Film Festival for Geeks with all the film showings and deal making.

Man, one of the writers at JoBlo summed this up perfectly. I would have been salivating at this kind of news five years ago, but after the mild disappointment of Terminator Salvation and the not-so-mild disappointment of Transformers 2, this news really doesn't do anything for me, and that is really quite sad. I mean if this was based on a pre-existing quality franchise like Robotech then I'd get excited, but was it is it's just another annoynmous robot movie that might be cool or might suck, and fate hasn't been too kind in that regard lately.

Also, as a sidenote I'm really sick of comics/ graphic novels being launched simply so the movie rights can be snatched up a few months later and they can claim it's based on a comic. I mean if they really wanted to work with a pre-existing franchise there's a slew of them to choose from.